For that little Revolutionary inside all of us (or maybe just me)...
"'Don't speak to me of revolution until you are ready to eat rats to survive.' Quotes like this one from the Last Poets make me wonder how effective the use of nonviolence really is. In the US and elsewhere, the 'progressive left' seem to be practicing 'comfort zone politics.' I, for one, seriously doubt that we can win a war against imperialism without the use of armed resistance. We can't have one without the other. Nonviolence has its place, but the use of self-defense against the state--in the form of violence--shouldn't be discounted. Our forests are being destroyed, our babies have high levels of lead and mercury in their system before they're even born, war has become a common part of life. When are we going to take action and truly stop this disease called civilization? I am one--and there are others--who is ready to eat rats to survive..."
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